[2] Belmont was surrounded by a number of other collieries, including Kepier Grange, Carrville, Dragonville, Broomside and Gilesgate Moor.

[3] However, by the late nineteenth century the majority of the collieries in this part of Durham had closed (although some small ones stayed open until the 1920s) and many of the houses built just decades earlier were demolished.

[4] Belmont, Broomside, Carrville and Gilesgate Moor were still village-like until the 1950s, when significant expansion of suburban housing in Durham City occurred.

[5] Further significant suburban developments in Belmont and Carrville, particularly to the south of Broomside Lane, grew the area's population between 1970 and 2000, while the Dragonville area of Gilesgate Moor saw first industrial and then later retail growth from the 1970s onwards; today the district is home to a number of large shopping centres and supermarkets.

The main bus routes from Sunderland and Seaham to Durham run through Belmont, providing regular services into the city centre.